8  INTEMPERANCE. 

was  spent  in  one  year.  The  great  city  of  New  York  was 
favored,  in  1870,  with  7,000  licensed  drinking  saloons,  and 
spent  for  intoxicating  drinks  the  modest  sum  of  $60,000,000, 
having  35,000  persons  engaged  in  the  liquor  traffic.  At  the 
same  time  she  had  475  churches  and  chapels,  and  3,000  persons 
engaged  in  preaching  the  various  gospels  and  teaching  the 
public  and  private  schools,  at  a  cost  of  only  $4,500,000  for 
both  religious  and  secular  education. 

It  is  estimated  that  there  are  "400,000  more  persons 
engaged  in  the  liquor  business  in  the  United  States  than  in 
school  teaching  and  preaching  the  various  gospels;"  that 
said  business  is  making,  annually,  "50,000  confirmed  drunk- 
ards;" that  it  is  "sending  to  prisons  100,000  annually;" 
that  by  it  "200,000  children  are  annually  reduced  to  want;" 
that  every  year  it  "sends  150,000  persons  to  drunkards' 
graves;"  that  it  is  costing  this  nation  a  yearly  expenditure  of 
"$1,500,000,000,"  which  might  be  spent  for  many  better  pur- 
poses ;  that  it  is  converting  millions  upon  millions  of  bushels 
of  grain,  which  God  has  given  us  for  food  for  man  and  beast, 
into  beverages  which  inebriate,  corrupt  and  destroy ;  and  that 
it  is  the  primal  cause  of  a  vast  amount  of  the  crime,  poverty 
and  misery  with  which  this  nation  is  afflicted. 

Again  we  ask,  does  it  pay  financially  ?  No  !  verily  no ! 

A  BILLION  AND  A  HALF    OP  CASH  ! 

It  is  easy  to  speak  the  words,  but  who  can  conceive  the  large 
amount  expressed  by  those  words?  And  who  can  count  that 
large  number?  Where  is  the  boy  who  will  live  long  enough 
to  do  so? 

Could  a  boy  commence  counting  with  his  first  breath,  and 
continue  doing  so,  at  the  rate  of  one  a  second,  1 2  hours  a 
day,  365  days  a  year,  for  95  years,  he  would  then  find  that 
his  task  was  hardly  finished. 

Such  a  sum  of  money  would  be  sufficient  to  gather  15,000,. 
000  of  Israel,  at  $100  each,  to  the  present  gathering  places 
of  the  Saints  of  Grod.  And,  be  it  remembered,  this  large 
sum  is  simply  the  estimated  expenditure  of  the  United 
States  for  intoxicants  for  one  year. 

Again,  does  it  pay  individually?  Does  it  pay  the  nation? 
Do  the  broken  hearts,  the  blighted  homes,  the  squalid  pov- 


EXCUSES  FOR  DRINKING.  9 

erty,  the  untold  misery,  and  the  almost  incredible  amount  of 
crime  committed  in  this  "Christian  land,  where  men  oft  kneel 
and  pray,"  bring  any  commensurate  returns  for  such  an 
enormous  outlay?  Verily,  no!  It  is  a  bad  investment, 
individually  and  collectively,  socially  and  morally,  financially 
and  politically,  religiously  and  eternally. 

WHY  DO  MEN  DRINK? 

Numerous  are  the  reasons  assigned,  and  excuses  furnished. 
We  once  saw  an  alphabetical  list  of  reasons,  and  have  forgot- 
ten them  in  form,  but  remember  some  of  their  substance. 
One  drinks  to  warm  him  in  cold  weather,  and  another  to  cool 
him  in  warm  weather.  One  because  he  has  a  pain  in  the 
head,  another  because  he  has  a  pain  in  the  back ;  and  others 
because  they  have  pains  elsewhere.  One  because  the  doctor 
recommends  it,  another  because  he  does  not,  and  he  believes 
a  little  would  do  him  good.  One  because  he  is  married, 
another  because  he  is  divorced.  One  because  he  is  going  on 
a  journey,  another  because  he  is  just  returning  from  one. 
One  because  he  is  parting  with  his  friend  who  is  going  to  a 
foreign  clime,  another  because  his  friend  is  just  returned 
from  abroad.  One  because  he  is  filled  with  joy,  another 
because  he  has  much  sorrow.  One  because  he  likes  to  be 
sociable  with  his  friends,  another  because  he  has  not  a  friend 
in  the  world.  One  because  he  is  successful  and  happy, 
another  because  he  is  unsuccessful  and  miserable.  One 
because  he  is  sick,  another  to  prevent  sickness.  One  because 
his  uncle  died  and  left  him  a  legacy,  another  because  his  aunt 
died  and  didn't  leave  him  one.  And  so  on.  Thus  reasons 
and  excuses  might  be  furnished  at  great  length.  But  these 
are  easily  disposed  of,  and  are  as  nothing  compared  with  the 
reason,  "because  I  love  it!"  For  this  will  prompt  a  man  to 
barter  property,  self-respect,  reputation  and  the  authority 
and  favor  of  heaven  to  obtain  gratification.  And  what  is  the 
sequel  ? 

WHAT  PROPERTIES  HAVE  ALCOHOLIC  BEVERAGES? 

They  stimulate  and  use  up  nervous  power,  and,  after  their 
action,  leave  the  system  less  powerful  than  before. 
Are  they  medicinal  ? 


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INTEMPERANCE: 


AN 


PPEAL  TO  THE  YOUTH  OF 


THE  FOLLY  OF  IIRUNKEXXKSS  AND  THE  NOBILITY 
OF  A  TEMPERATE  LIFE  COMPARED. 


X    THAT    TELL    A     PEARPrL     HTOR 


EXAMPLES     FROM    REAL    LIFE. 


Instructor    Oilic'o. 


L.A.KIEl     OIT-^T,       TJTA.H- 
1881. 


INTEMPERANCE; 

AN  APPEAL  TO  THE  YOUTH  OF  ZION. 


THE  FOLLY  OF  DRUNKENNESS  AND  THE   NOBILITY  OF  A 
TEMPERATE  LIFE   COMPARED. 


DURING  the  past  few  years  we  have  observed,  with  much 
regret   and    apprehension,   the  gradual  growth  of  the 
pernicious  habit  of  tippling. 

Some  of  the  male  youths  of  our  community  are  pouring 
down  their  throats  an  "enemy  which  is  stealing  away  their 
brains,"  and  thereby  unfitting  themselves  for  the  labors  it  is 
their  privilege  to  perform  in  the  great  drama  of  the  last  days. 
They  are  feeding,  and,  in  some  instances,  creating  an  appe- 
tite for  intoxicants,  which,  unresisted,  will  push  its  unfortu- 
nate possessors  to  terrible  extremes,  and  cause  them  to  descend 
very,  very  low  indeed  to  obtain  gratification. 

The  prayers,  entreaties,  and  tears  of  parents,  supplemented 
with  the  teachings  of  inspiration  through  the  Priesthood  of 
the  Almighty,  are  not  sufficiently  potent,  at  present,  to  induce 
every  one  to  be  sober ;  and  one  cause  of  weakness  in  this 
respect  lies  in  the  solemn  fact  that  the  evil  is  not  confined  to  the 
young,  and  the  consequent  fact  that, 

"Example  is  a  living  law,  whose  sway 
Men  more  than  all  the  written  laws  obey." 


2  •  INTEMPERANCE. 

•\ 

With  these  facts  before  us,  we  are  prompted  to  make  an 
attempt,  assisted  by  our  heavenly  Father,  which  shall  be 
preventive  and  reformatory  in  its  character.  We  are  per- 
fectly willing  that  the  elderly  and  aged  of  every  clime,  creed 
and  color  shall  derive  all  possible  benefit  from  our  feeble  effort, 
but  our  chief  object  is  to  bless  the  young. 

The  Lord  has  blessed  His  people  in  the  vales  of  Utah  and 
adjoining  Territories  and  States  with  a  numerous  posterity, 
and  they  will  continue  to  come  to  His  faithful  sons  and 
daughters  in  an  ever-increasing  ratio,  until  they  are  as  num- 
berless to  man  as  the  sands  upon  the  sea  shore.  Their  work 
is  important,  and  their  destiny  is  great. 

Knowing  this,  the  adversary  has  introduced  modern  civili- 
zation, with  which  to  allure  and  destroy  by  making  them 
drunkards,  and  setting  traps  for  their  drunken  feet,  into  which 
they  may  walk  and  corrupt  themselves-  in  body  and  mind, 
render  themselves  unfit  to  fill  their  life's  mission,  and  rob 
themselves  of  the  glorious  destiny  which  awaits  them. 

Hence,  we  wish  to  exert  an  influence  with  the  younger  por- 
tion of  the  rising  generation,  to  induce  them  to  shun  bad 
compan3T,  to  contract  no  bad  habits,  and  to  live  pure  before 
Grod ;  and  with  the  elder  portion,  who  may  be  too  rapidly 
forming  within  themselves  monster  appetites  for  tobacco  and 
intoxicating  drinks,  to  stop  self-destruction  in  every  respect, 
and  preserve  and  exercise  their  God-given  physical  and  men- 
tal powers  in  the  great  work  of  a  world's  renovation,  that 
they  may  stand  as  saviors  and  not  as  destroyers  upon  Mount 
Zion. 

We  would  do  this,  and  labor  in  faith,  too,  for  we  feel  assured 
that  the  labor  will  be  of  benefit  to  many,  and  not  without 
effect  upon  any;  for  the  ''bread  cast  upon  the  waters  will  be 
seen  after  many  days, ' '  and  Grod  will  bless  the  precious  seed 
sown  by  the  honest  sower,  and  cause  it  to  produce  celestial 
fruit  to  His  glory. 

"Then  sow,  for  the  hours  are  fleeting,  and  the  seed  must  fall 

to-day; 
And  care  not  what  hands  shall  reap  it,  or  if  you  shall  have 

passed  away 
Before  the  waving  corn-fields  shall  gladden  the  sunny  day/' 


THE  USE  OF  TOBACCO.  3 

We  have  connected  tobacco  with  intoxicating  drink,  because 
the  habitual  smoker  is  frequently  an  habitual  drinker,  or  is 
likely  to  become  such,  for  an  appetite  for  tobacco  often  pro- 
duces a  thirst  for  liquor,  and  the  customs  of  the  age  fayor  the 
use  of  both. 

The  time  was  when  smoking  was  not  customary  as  at  pres- 
ent. 

During  the  last  quarter  of  the  16th  century,  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh  took  tobacco  from  Virginia  and  introduced  it  into* 
England.  One  day  his  servant  entered  his  study  with  a  tank- 
ard of  ale  for  him,  and  saw  Sir  Walter  for  the  first  time  with 
a  pipe  in  his  mouth,  and  enveloped  in  the  clouds  of  smoke 
he  was  puffing  out.  The  servant,  having  never  seen  any- 
thing'of  the  kind  before, "and  believing  his  master  was  the  sub- 
ject of  an  "internal  conflagration,"  dashed  the  ale  in  his  face 
with  a  view  to  extinguish  it,  and  ran  down  stairs  alarming 
the  other  inmates  of  the  house  with  the  cry  that  his  master 
was  '  'on  fire,  and  would  be  burned  to  ashes  if  they  did  not 
hasten  to  his  aid." 

Not  much  alarm  is  created,  to-day,  when  a  man  is  emitting 
smoke  from  his  mouth,  and  nostrils,  too ! 

An  anecdote  of  Queen  Elizabeth  and  Sir  Walter  Raleigh 
may  not  be  out  of  place  here. 

Raleigh  told  the  queen  one  day  that  he  could  tell  her  what 
"the  smoke  weighed  of  every  pipeful. of  tobacco  he  con- 
sumed." She  laid  a  considerable  wager  that  he  could  not, 
but  he  proved  the  fact  by  weighing  the  tobacco  before  putting 
it  into  his  pipe,  and  weighing  the  ashes  after  he  had  smoked 
the  pipeful,  showing  that  the  difference  was  the  weight  of 
the  smoke.  The  queen  admitted  that  he  was  correct,  and 
jocularly  remarked  as  she  paid  the  bet,  "that  she  knew  of 
many  persons  who  had  turned  their^  gold  into  smoke,  but  he 
was  the  first  who  had  turned  smoke  into  gold. ' ' 

Young  men,  do  you 

CONVERT  GOLD    INTO    SMOKE? 

And,  viewed  from  a  financial  standpoint,  does  it  pay?  Ben- 
jamin Franklin  says  that  "What  maintains  one  vice  would 
bring  up  two  children."  Reflect  seriously  upon  this  matter. 


4  INTEMPERANCE. 

In  regard  to  the  use  of  tobacco  producing  an  appetite  for 
strong  drinks,  we  will  introduce  the  testimony  of  one  who 
ought  to  know : 

"A  French  physician  has  investigated  the  effect  of  smoking 
on  thirty-eight  boys,  between  the  ages  of  nine  and  fifteen, 
who  were  addicted  to  the  habit.  Twenty-seven  presented 
distinct  symptoms  of  nicotine  poisoning.  In  twenty-two  there 
were  serious  disorders  of  the  circulation,  indigestion,  dullness 
oT  intellect,  and  a  marked  appetite  for  strong  drinks." 

Man  says  it  softens  the  bones,  injures  the  brain,  corrupts 
the  blood,  and  robs  the  human  system  of  muscular  and  men- 
tal energy ;  and  God  says : 

"IT  IS  NOT   GOOD   FOR    MAN." 

When  men  are  in  training  for  the  prize-ring,  for  the  bil- 
liard match,  for  the  foot-race,  and  for  other  purposes,  requir- 
ing the  best  physical  condition,  so  that  the  best  and  most 
that  is  in  man  can  be  got  out  of  him,  whether  the  purpose 
for  which  these  God-given  powers  are  used  be  good  or  bad, 
they  are  not  allowed  to  use  liquor  or  tobacco,  although  they 
are  apt  to  indulge  excessively  at  other  times.  And  if  man 
desires  to  put  forth  his  best  mental  efforts,  his  system  needs 
to  be  free  from  the  influence  and  effects  of  alcohol  and 
tobacco. 

This  statement  is  supported  by  a  declaration  published  in 
1874,  as  follows:  "No  man  who  has  graduated  at  the  head 
of  his  class  in  Harvard  College,  within  the  last  fifty-five  years, 
has  used  either  spirits  or  tobacco  in  any  form. ' ' 

Of  course,  this  is  equivalent  to  the  assertion  that  no  man 
who  used  these  things  had  graduated  at  the  head  of  his  class 
during  that  period. 

What  a  powerful  testimony  against  its  use ! 

If  the  physical  and  mental  powers  are  injuriously  affected 
by  these  articles,  how  fare  the  spiritual?  And  can  the 
young  Elder  in  Israel,  who  requires  the  fullest  strength  of  all 
the  powers .  of  his  being,  expect  to  graduate  at  the  head  of 
his  class  in  the  kingdom  of  God — the  university  of  heaven — 
and  reach  a  celestial  crown,  if  he  persists  in  paralyzing  and 
destroying  those  powers  by  which  alone  he  can  win  and  wear 
his  crown? 


WHAT  IS    INTOXICATION?  5 

We  will  conclude  our  reference  to  the  use  of  tobacco,  by 
introducing  an  anecdote  on  the  filthy  habit  of  chewing,  from 
the  Boston  Commercial  Bulletin,  entitled 

"A  KANSAS  SPITTER." 

"As  the  train  stopped  for  ten  minutes,  and  that  individual, 
who  goes  along  tapping  the  wheels  with  his  hammer,  was 
passing  rapidly  by  the  smoking  car,  one  of  the  windows  was 
hoisted  and  a  torrent  of  tobacco  spittle  was  ejected  which 
completely  deluged  him.  The  machinist  paused  for  a  mo- 
ment, and,  wiping  some  of  the  stream  from  his  person,  said 
to  the  offender,  'Mister,  what  part  of  the  country  did  you 
come  from?'  'Me?'  said  the  spitter,  puckering  his  lips  for 
another  expectoration,  'I  come  from  Kansas.'  'I  thought 
so,'  said  the  machinist,  'for  if  you  had  lived  in  Massachusetts 
or  Connecticut,  they  would  have  had  a  water-wheel  in  your 
mouth  long  ago.'" 

We  will  now  turn  our  attention  to  the  principal  subject 
before  us,  viz :  The  intemperate  use  of  intoxicating  drinks. 

What  is  intoxication  or  drunkenness? 

Here  is  one  definition:  "A  man  is  intoxicated  when  he 
knows  what  he  does,  and  does  not  care  ;  and  he  is  drunk  when 
he  neither  knows  nor  cares  what  he  does;"  and  here  is  a 
poetic  definition: 

"Not  drunk  is  he  who  from  the  floor 
Can  rise  again  and  drink  some  more; 
But  drunk  is  he  who  prostrate  lies, 
And  who  can  neither  drink  nor  rise." 

And  our  readers  may  choose  the  prosaic  or  poetic,  or  sub- 
stitute any  other  definition  which  may  suit  their  fancy  most. 

It  was  an  ancient  custom  of  the  Spartans,  in  order  to 
inculcate  among  their  youth  an  abhorrence  of  intemperance 
and  its  kindred  vices,  to  make  their  slaves  drunk  with  wine 
in  the  public  market-places,  so  that  the  rising  generation, 
"upon  whom  would  some  day  devolve  the  honor  and  safety  of 
the  Lacedemonian  Republic,  might  see  before  them  all  the 
ghastly  details  of  the  drunkard's  disgrace,  his  loss  of  reason 
and  of  physical  strength." 

If  the  necessity  for  such  an  exhibition  existed  among  the 
Spartans,  modern  civilization  has  rendered  such  an  exhibi- 


6  INTEMPERANCE. 

tion  unnecessary  in  our  day,  by  supplying  ample  evidence  of 
the  "drunkard's  disgrace,"  in  the  natural,  or  unnatural  order 
of  things,  on  a  smaller  scale,  and  no  doubt  at  more  frequent 
intervals;  and  we  heartily  wish  that  the  evidence  thus  fur- 
nished would  accomplish  the  Spartan  object  with  the  youth  of 
the  present  century. 
Viewed  from  a  financial  standpoint, 

DOES  INTEMPERANCE  PAY? 

We  will  introduce  some  statistics  showing  the  amount  of 
means  spent  in  the  United  States  and  Territories,  during  the 
year  1870,  for  intoxicating  drinks;  but  we  do  not  wish  to  imply 
that  the  whole  amount  was  spent  by  drunkards: 
Imported  and  domestic  distilled  and  spirit- 
uous liquors        -  $1,344,000,000. 
Brewed  and  fermented      -  123,000,000. 
Imported  wines  15,000,000. 
Domestic  wines                 -          -          -  5,000,000. 


$1,  487,000,000. 

"New  York  spent  $246,617,520;  Pennsylvania,  $152,663,- 
495;  Illinois,  $119,932,945;  Ohio,  $151,734,875;  Massachusetts, 
>7'.i.572:  Maryland,  $40,561,620;  Missouri,  $54,627,855; 
Indiana,  $51,418*890;  California,  $59,924,090;  Kentucky, 
$50,223,115;  Wisconsin  $43,818,845;  Michigan,  952,784,170; 
Iowa,  $35,582,695;  Connecticut,  $35,001,230;  New  Jersey, 
740;  Maine,  $8,257,015;  Rhode  Island,  810.234,240; 
New  Hampshire.  SI 2. 629, 275:  Minnesota,  814.394,970;  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  |  '.0;  Vermont,  $6,785,065;  Kar 
$8,503,856;  Louisiana,  $48,021,730;  Tennessee,  $20,283,635; 
Georgia,  $25,328.465;  East  Virginia,  $26,132,903;  Alabama, 
$2^,025,885;  Texas,  $21,751,250;  South  Carolina,  $10,610,625; 
North  Carolina,  $13,224,340;  West  Virginia,  $8,806  : 
Arkansas,  $7,858,320;  Delaware,  $3,770,355;  Mississippi.  84,- 
493,303;  Oregon.  S4, 261,240;- Nevada,  $4,838,735;  Nebraska, 
_»0,515;  Colorado,  $3.745,  215:  the  Territories ;  $14,169, 
400;  total  $1,480,132,679." 

Add  to  this  a  legitimate  percentage  of  $90,000,000— the  cost 
of  litigation,  crimes,  prisons,  etc. — caused  by  intemperance, 


DOES   INTEMPERANCE  PAY?  7 

and  we  have  the  enormous  sum  of  $1,500,000,000  spent  for 
intoxicating  drinks  in  the  United  States  in  one  year. 

In  1870,  there  were  in  the  United  States  140,000  licensed 
liquor  saloons,  which  had  an  estimated  daily  average  of  40 
customers,  making  5,600,000  drinkers,  who,  it  is  estimated, 
spent  their  money  during  the  year  in  the  following  pro- 
portions : 

Drinkers.        Each  spent.  Total.   ** 

100,000            $1,000,00  $100,000,000 

100,000  900,00  90,000,000 

100,000  800,00  80,000,000 

100,000  700,00  70,000,000 

100,000  600,00'  60,000,000 

100,000  500,00  50,000,000 

1,000,000  400,00  400,000,000 

1,000,000  300.00  300,000,000 

1,000,000  200,00  200,000,000 

1,000,000  150,00  150,000,000 

1,000,000  75,00  75,000,000 


5,600,000  $1,575,000,000. 

An  average  of  about  $280  dollars  for  each  drinker. 

Here  is  the  cost  of  the  following  articles  for  the  same  year. 
Compare  and  reflect : 

Flour  and  meal,        -        -        -        $530,000,000 
Cotton  goods,  115,000,000 

Boots  and  shoes,      -        -        -  90,000,000 

Clothing,  70,000,000 

Wollen  goods,  60,000,000 

Newspaper  and  job  printing,    -  40,000,000 

Total,  $905,000,000 

The  State  of  Pennsylvania  spent  during  1870,  for  liquors  of 
all  kinds,  $152,663,945,  for  her  schools  and  teaching  only 
$5,833,945.  That  State  had  78,800  persons  engaged  in  the 
liquor  business,  and  only  16,870  engaged  in  teaching  school. 
It  was  also  burdened  with  24,000  criminals,  four-fifths  of 
whom,  it  was  estimated,  were  made  such  by  strong  drink. 

The  city  of  Philadelphia  had  4,160  drinking  places,  and 
spent  for  intoxicating  drinks  in  one  year  $38,000,000.  Chi- 
cago had  2,300  drinking  establishments,  in  which  $14,000,000 


8  INTEMPERANCE. 

was  spent  in  one  year.  The  great  city  of  New  York  was 
favored,  in  1870,  with  7,000  licensed  drinking  saloons,  and 
spent  for  intoxicating  drinks  the  modest  sum  of  $60,000,000, 
having  35,000  persons  engaged  in  the  liquor  traffic.  At  the 
same  time  she  had  475  churches  and  chapels,  and  3,000  persons 
engaged  in  preaching  the  various  gospels  and  teaching  the 
public  and  private  schools,  at  a  cost  of  only  $4,500,000  for 
both  religious  and  secular  education. 

It  is  estimated  that  there  are  "400,000  more  persons 
engaged  in  the  liquor  business  in  the  United  States  than  in 
school  teaching  and  preaching  the  various  gospels;"  that 
said  business  is  making,  annually,  "50.000  confirmed  drunk- 
ards;" that  it  is  "sending  to  prisons  100,000  annually;" 
that  by  it  "200.000  children  are  annually  reduced  to  want;" 
that  every  year  it  "sends  150,000  persons  to  drunkards' 
graves;"  that  it  is  costing  this  nation  a  yearly  expenditure  of 
"$1,500,000,000,"  which  might  be  spent  for  many  better  pur- 
poses ;  that  it  is  converting  millions  upon  millions  of  bushels 
of  grain,  which  God  has  given  us  for  food  for  man  and  beast, 
into  beverages  which  inebriate,  corrupt  and  destroy ;  and  that 
it  is  the  primal  cause  of  a  vast  amount  of  the  crime,  poverty 
and  misery  with  which  this  nation  is  afflicted. 

Again  we  ask,  does  it  pay  financially?  No  !  verily  no  ! 

A  BILLION  AND  A  HALF    OF  CASH  ! 

It  is  easy  to  speak  the  words,  but  who  can  conceive  the  large 
amount  expressed  by  those  words?  And  who  can  count  that 
large  number?  Where  is  the  boy  who  will  live  long  enough 
to  do  so? 

Could  a  boy  commence  counting  with  his  first  breath,  and 
continue  doing  so,  at  the  rate  of  one  a  second,  12  hours  a 
day,  365  days  a  year,  for  95  years,  he  would  then  find  that 
his  task  was  hardly  finished. 

Such  a  sum  of  money  would  be  sufficient  to  gather  15,000,. 
000  of  Israel,  at  $100  each,  to  the  present  gathering  places 
of  the  Saints  of  Grod.  And,  be  it  remembered,  this  large 
sum  is  simply  the  estimated  expenditure  of  the  United 
States  for  intoxicants  for  one  year. 

Again,  does  it  pay  individually?  Does  it  pay  the  nation? 
Do  the  broken  hearts,  the  blighted  homes,  the  squalid  pov- 


EXCUSES  FOR  DRINKING.  9 

erty,  the  untold  misery,  and  the  almost  incredible  amount  of 
crime  committed  in  this  "Christian  land,  where  men  oft  kneel 
and  pray,"  bring  any  commensurate  returns  for  such  an 
enormous  outlay?  Verily,  no!  It  is  a  bad  investment, 
individually  and  collectively,  socially  and  morally,  financially 
and  politically,  religiously  and  eternally. 

WHY  DO  MEN  DRINK? 

Numerous  are  the  reasons  assigned,  and  excuses  furnished. 
We  once  saw  an  alphabetical  list  of  reasons,  and  have  forgot- 
ten them  in  form,  but  remember  some  of  their  substance. 
One  drinks  to  warm  him  in  cold  weather,  and  another  to  cool 
him  in  warm  weather.  One  because  he  has  a  pain  in  the 
head,  another  because  he  has  a  pain  in  the  back ;  and  others 
because  they  have  pains  elsewhere.  One  because  the  doctor 
recommends  it,  another  because  he  does  not,  and  he  believes 
a  little  would  do  him  good.  One  because  he  is  married, 
another  because  he  is  divorced.  One  because  he  is  going  on 
a  journey,  another  because  he  is  just  returning  from  one. 
One  because  he  is  parting  with  his  friend  who  is  going  to  a 
foreign  clime,  another  because  his  friend  is  just  returned 
from  abroad.  One  because  he  is  filled  with  joy,  another 
because  he  has  much  sorrow.  One  because  he  likes  to  be 
sociable  with  his  friends,  another  because  he  has  not  a  friend 
in  the  world.  One  because  he  is  successful  and  happy, 
another  because  he  is  unsuccessful  and  miserable.  One 
because  he  is  sick,  another  to  prevent  sickness.  One  because 
his  uncle  died  and  left  him  a  legacy,  another  because  his  aunt 
died  and  didn't  leave  him  one.  And  so  on.  Thus  reasons 
and  excuses  might  be  furnished  at  great  length.  But  these 
are  easily  disposed  of,  and  are  as  nothing  compared  with  the 
reason,  "because  I  love  it !"  For  this  will  prompt  a  man  to 
barter  property,  self-respect,  reputation  and  the  authority 
and  favor  of  heaven  to  obtain  gratification.  And  what  is  the 
sequel? 

WHAT  PROPERTIES  HAVE  ALCOHOLIC  BEVERAGES? 

They  stimulate  and  use  up  nervous  power,  and,  after  their 
action,  leave  the  system  less  powerful  than  before. 
Are  they  medicinal  ? 


10  INTEMPERANCE. 

A  geDtleman  in  "Washington,  apparently  in  a  decline,  called 
in  one  of  the  most  eminent  physicians,  but  as  he  did  not 
rapidly  recover,  he  told  the  physician  that  whisky  had  been  reco- 
mended  to  him,  and  asked  if  it  would  do  any  good.  "Yes," 
said  the  doctor,  "it  would  help  you."  "Why,  then,  do  you 
not  give  it?"  said  the  sick  man.  "Because  I  have  given  it 
to  a  dozen  gentlemen,  and  aU  have  become  drunkards." 

Are  they  tonic  ? 

Professor  Miller  says,  "People  consider  alcohol  as  a  simple 
and  common  tonic,  and  are  ready  to  accept  its  supposed  help 
as  such  in  every  form  of  weakness  and  general  disorder  of 
health.  But  it  is  ordinarily  no  true  tonic.  In  its  primary 
effect  it  is  merely  a  stimulant,  with  narcotic  action  when  given 
in  large  doses.  In  its  secondary  action  it  is  the  reverse  of 
tonic. ' ' 

Are  they  nutritious? 

Liebig,  the  great  German  chemist,  declares,  in  regard  to 
beer:  "We  can  prove  with  mathematical  certainty,  as  plain 
as  two  and  two  make  four,  that  as  much  flour  or  meal  as  can 
lie  on  the  point  of  a  table-knife,  is  more  nutritious  than  nine 
quarts  of  the  best  Bavarian  beer ;  that  a  man  who  is  able 
daily  to  consume  that  amount  of  beer  obtains  from  it,  in  the 
whole  year,  in  the  most  favorable  case,  exactly  the  amount  of 
nutrition  which  is  contained  in  a  five -pound  loaf  of  bread,  or 
in  three  pounds  of  flesh. ' ' 

What  other  properties  have  they  ? 

The  old  Indian  thought  one  barrel  of  whisky  contained  a 
good  many  fights. 

Wellington  thought  tierces  of  wine  contained  something 
which  he  feared  more  than  an  army,  for,  "during  the  Pen- 
insular war,  he  heard  that  a  large  magazine  of  wine  lay  on 
his  line  of  march,  and  he  dispatched  a  body  of  troops  to 
knock  every  wine  barrel  on  the  head. ' ' 

Dr.  Gutherie  declares:  "I  do  in  my  conscience  believe  that 
intoxicating  stimulants  have  sunk  into  perdition  more  men 
and  women  than  found  a  grave  in  that  deluge  which  swept  over 
the  highest  hill  tops,  engulphing  a  world,  of  which  but  eight 
were  saved." 


ARE  STIMULANTS  NECESSARY?  11 

We  concede,  therefore,  that  they  have  some  properties  and 
powers ! 

Are  stimulants  necessary,  in  summer  or  winter,  or  in  warm 
or  cold  climates  ? 

Men  have  labored  in  every  clime  from  the  equator  to  the 
arctic  and  the  antarctic  regions  without  their  aid.  The  cele- 
brated General  Havelock,  under  the  burning  sun  of  India, 
''abstained  from  their  use."  The  world-renowned  and 
adventurous  traveler  and  explorer,  Dr.  Livingstone,  "adjured 
their  use ;"  and  the  motto  of  Sir  John  Ross,  amid  the  eternal 
ice  and  perpetual  snow  of  the  artic  regions  was,  '  'Touch  not, 
taste  not" 

Horace  G-reeley  was  a  home-laborer,  but  a  hard  worker, 
and  he  declared  at  sixty  years  of  age  that  "he  had  worked 
for  forty  years  without  intoxicating  drinks,  and  had  lengthened 
his  life  by  doing  so."  And  we  could  give  the  names  of  a 
number  of  the  Elders  of  Israel  who  have  labored  long  and 
hard  in  the  cause  of  truth  and  righteousness  without  the  aid 
of  that  which  unmans,  inebriates  and  destroys. 

We  once  questioned  an  Elder  relative  to  the  propriety  of 
his  going  into  the  liquor  business,  the  consistency  of  the  act, 
and  the  reason  why  he  did  so,  and  he  honestly  acknowledged 
that  there  was 

MONEY  IN  IT, 

and  he  thought  he  might  as  well  make  it  as  anyone  else,  he 
was  after  the  dollar ;  that  was  his  only  reason.  We  asked 
him  if  he  had  reflected  upon  the  moral  effect  his  business 
would  have  upon  the  youthful  portion  of  the  community,  and 
he  replied  that  he  had  not — he  thought  of  nothing  but  the 
almighty  dollar. 

This  is  the  object  of  many,  and  they  have  but  few  scruples 
as  regards  the  nature  of  the  business  they  engage  in,  so  long 
as  the  object  is  reached. 

Many  will  remember  the  anecdote  of  a  man  being  drunk 
and  apparently  asleep  in  a  tavern,  when  it  was  remarked  by 
the  landlord  that  the  drunkard  was  taking  the  shingles  off 
the  roof  of  his  own  house  and  putting  them  on  the  tavern- 
keeper's,  which  remark  the  drunkard  heard,  and  ceased  visiting 
the  tavern.  He  was  subsequently  met  by  the  tavern-keeper  and 


12  INTEMPERANCE. 

asked  why  he  did  not  come  and  enjoy  his  glass  as  usual,  to 
which  he  replied  that  he  had  concluded  to  put  the  shingles 
on  his  own  house. 

Judging  from  the  disposition  manifested  by  some,  liquor 
dealers  they  would  not  only  take  the  shingles,  but  the  house, 
too,  the  land  upon  which  it  stands,  and  every  dollar's  worth 
of  personal  property,  from  a  man,  and  then  kick  him  out. 

But  all  liquor  venders  would  not  do  this.  At  least,  one 
notable  exception  comes  to  mind.  Three  or  four  years  ago 
we  read  the  following  and  preserved  it: 

"At  a  second  class  hotel  in  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  a  few 
days  since,  a  little  girl  entered  a  bar-room,  and,  in  pitiful 
tones,  told  the  bar-keeper  that  her  mother  had  sent  her  there 
to  get  eight  cents.  'Eight  cents ! '  exclaimed  the  bar- keeper. 

'"Yes,  sir.' 

"'What  does  your  mother  want  eight  cents  for?  I  don't 
owe  her  anything. ' 

"'Well,'  said  the  child,  'father  spends  all  his  money  here 
for  rum,  and  we  have  had  nothing  to  eat  to-day.  Mother 
wants  to  buy  a  loaf  of  bread. ' 

"A  loafer  suggested  to  the  bar-keeper  to  kick  the  brat  out. 

"'No,'  said  the  bar-keeper,  'I'll  give  the  mother  the 
money;  and  if  the  father  comes  back  again  I'll  kick  him  out!' 

"Such  a  circumstance  never  happened  before,  and  may 
never  happen  again.  Humanity  owes  that  bar-keeper  a  vote 
of  thanks." 

Among  habitual  drinkers  can  be  found  some  who  have 
nherited  the 

LOYE  OF  LIQUOR. 

Their  parents,  in  a  few  instances,  may  have  fostered  and 
strengthened  this  love,  and  they  themselves  have  fed  it  until 
it  is  a  part  of  their  being — an  insatiate  monster  continually 
crying,  give !  GIVE  !  GIVE !  and  dragging  its  victim  down  to 
penury,  disgrace  and  hell.  Such  have  but  little  power 
of  resistance,  and  it  gradually  grows  shamefully  less.  When 
once  the  taste,  or  even  the  smell  greets  their  olfactories, 
resistance,  resolution,  self-control  and  reason  seem  powerless, 
and  the  unscrupulous  fiend  within  bears  sway  and  accom- 
plishes his  deadly  purpose. 


LOVE  OF  LIQUOR.  13 

While  writing  upon  this  point,  we  are  prompted  to  introduce 
an  anecdote  of  Dr.  Samuel  Johnson,  one  of  the  greatest,  if 
not  the  greatest,  of  the  literary  men  of  the  18th  century: 

'"Pray  sir,'  asked  Dr.  Aston,  'what  objection  have  you  to 
wine?' 

'"A  sound  one,  sir,'  answered  Dr.  Johnson,  'it  disagrees 
with  me.' 

"'And  yet,  sir,'  says  Mrs.  Thrail,  'you  will  eat  heartily  of 
a  veal  pie,  stuffed  with  plums — a  mess  that  would  poison  an 
ostrich. ' 

"'Madam,'  he  answered,  'you  have  to  accept  life  on  the 
conditions  under  which  it  is  offered.  I  can  eat  veal  pie  and 
plums  without  injury  to  my  health,  for  when  my  hunger  is 
appeased,  I  eat  no  more.  But  of  wine,  madam,  I  am  never 
to  know  when  I  have  had  enough.  One  glass  creates  the 
want  of  another,  and  a  second  demands  the  support  of  a 
third.  Besides,  madam,  I  have  no  confidence  in  my  powers 
of  resistance.  There  is  a  heedless  vivacity  in  wine  that  is 
above  the  reach  of  judgment.  Come,  Dr.  Aston,  let  us  pledge 
one  another  in  water  and  put  in  for  a  hundred. ' 

"  'Well,'  said  Sir  Charles  Bracebridge,  'for  my  part  I  had 
rather  die  at  fifty  a  wine  drinker  than  to  live  to  a  hundred  on 
water. ' 

'"And,  sir,  you  will  have  all  the  fools  in  the  country 
to  agree  with  you,'  answered  Dr.  Johnson." 

And  what  is  to  be  done  in  such  a  case?  Why,  never  to 
touch  the  accursed  stuff,  to  wake  up  or  give  sway  to  the 
destructive  fiend.  This  is  the  only  sure  remedy.  Apply  it, 
and  let  "all  the  fools  in  the  country"  benefit  by  your  example. 

While  writing  the  word  "fools,"  we  were  reminded  of  some 
of  the  sayings  of  the  great  temperance  orator, 

J.    B.    GOUGH. 

He,  no  doubt,  has  done  much  good.  But  he,  too,  found  his 
powers  of  resistance  insufficient,  for  he  "lapsed"  sometime 
ago,  so  we  read  in  a  public  print,  and  now  pays  a  person  a 
large  salary  to  travel  with  him  to  prevent  another  "lapse." 
Read,  young  men,  what  he  says  for  your  benefit : 

"Young  men,  as  you  lift  the  gleaming  wine-glass  to  your 
lips  in  the  jollity  of  the  night's  spree,  will  it  pay?  It  is  a 


14  INTEMPERANCE. 

gross  insult  to  call  a  man  a  fool.  Every  man  would  resent  it; 
but  in  the  suffering  of  the  next  morning,  with  disturbed 
conscience,  aching  head,  throbbing  temples,  racking  brain 
hot,  fevered  tongue,  and  all  the  horrible  reaction  that  might 
come,  does  not  the  victim  of  aches  clasp  his  burning  hands 
and  bitterly  call  himself  fool !  fool !  It  does  not  pay  to  begin. 
First  you  tolerate  it,  then  you  touch  and  taste  it,  then  you 
jest  and  laugh  at  it,  and  then  revel  in  it.  When  it  becomes 
your  master,  then  what  ?  What  numbers  have  been  swept 
down  in  the  hurricane  of  temptation!  In  the  mad  power  of 
this  passion  they  have  burst  the  bonds  of  a  mother's  love, 
trampled  a  father's  counsels  in  the  dust,  mocked  at  reproofs 
and  tears  and  prayers ;  and  now,  with  tattered  sails,  leaking 
hull,  and  spHntered  masts,  are  drifting  on  amid  howling 
winds  and  wintry  skies  to  utter  ruin;  when  they  might  have 
reached  the  haven  of  peace  and  security  laden  with  honor 
and  happiness.  Verily  it  does  not  pay. ' ' 

RESIST  TEMPTATION. 

Some  bright  examples,  may  be  found  of  resistance  to  the 
temptation  to  become  uneober,  and  of  firmness  in  the  practice 
of  sobriety. 

General  William  Henry  Harrison,  born  at  Berkeley,  on  the 
banks  of  the  James  river,  in  Virginia,  February  9th,  1773, 
became  the  ninth  President  of  the  United  States  on  the  4th 
of  March,  1841.  He  died  on  the  4th  of  the  next  month, 
thus  serving  in  that  responsible  position  only  one  month. 

He  was  successful  as  a  general,  as  governor  of  the  "Indiana 
Territory,"  comprising  the  present  States  of  Indiana,  Illinois 
and  Wisconsin,  and  would  no  doubt  have  been  successful,  had 
he  been  permitted  to  live,  as  President  of  the  United  States? 
during  one  or  two  terms  of  office. 

His  historian  says:  "Not  one  single  spot  can  be  found  to 
sully  the  brightness  of  his  fame ;  and,  through  all  the  ages, 
Americans  will  pronounce  with  love  and  reverence  the  name 
of  William  Henry  Harrison." 

Now,  to  what  was  this  attributable?  Was  he  a  sober  man? 
We  will  introduce  him  and  let  him  speak  for  himself. 

While  he  was  running  for  the  presidency,  he  was  asked  at  a 
dinner  to  take  wine.  He  declined.  He  was  urged,  and  again 


RESIST  TEMPTATION.  15 

declined.  Again  he  was  requested  and  urged.  This  was  too 
much.  He  arose  from  the  table,  his  tall  form  erect,  and  in 
the  most  dignified  manner  thus  addressed  those  present : 

"Gentlemen,  I  have  refused  twice  to  partake  of  the  wine- 
cup;  that  should  be  sufficient.  Though  you  press  the  cup  to 
my  lips,  not  a  drop  shall  pass  the  portals.  1  made  a  resolve, 
when  I  started  in  life,  that  1  would  avoid  strong  drink,  and  I 
have  never  broken  it.  I  am  one  of  a  class  of  seventeen  young 
men  who  graduated,  and  the  other  sixteen  fill  drunkard's 
graves,  all  through  the  pernicious  habit  of  social  wine-drink- 
ing. I  owe  all  my  health,  happiness  and  prosperity  to  that 
resolution.  Will  you  urge  me  now?" 

This  example,  and  similar  ones  which  the  world's  history 
furnishes,  to  which  may  be  added  the  illustrious  examples  of 
many  of  the  Elders  of  Israel  now  living,  is  the  kind  of  an 
example  for  the  youth  in  Zion  to  pattern  after.  Our  young 
people  of  both  sexes  need  bodily  and  mental  vigor  for  the 
life-work  before  them.  They  also  need  "the  faith  once  deliv- 
ered to  the  Saints,"  and  the  power  which  comes  by  faith  and 
through  the  authority  of  the  holy  Priesthood ;  for  the  work 
in  the  near  future  is  great,  and  it  devolves  upon  them  to  per- 
form it  to  the  acceptance  of  the  Almighty. 

Can  this  vigor  and  faith  and  power  be  obtained  by  the  hab- 
itual use  of  intoxicating  drinks?  No.  Drunkenness  weakens 
physical  strength,  makes  lunatics,  and  destroys  in  man  the 
soil  in  which  the  seeds  of  faith  and  power  may  be  planted 
and  nurtured  until  they  mature  in  the  Godship  in  celestial 
mansions. 

The  adversary  knows  this.  He  also  knows  the  brilliant  des- 
tiny which  awaits  many  of  the  young,  and  he  is  toiling 
energetically  to  rob  them  of  the  thrones  for  which  they  are 
destined.  The  effects  of  his  work,  when  he  succeeds  in  cor- 
rupting the  young,  reach  into  eternity.  He  is  working  to-day 
to  accomplish  a  specific  object  in  ages  to  come.  The  seed  he 
sows  will  bear  its  legitimate  and  natural  fruits. 

As  a  writer  once  said,  "Strong  drink  is  not  only  the  devil'8 
way  into  a  man,  but  it  is  man's  way  to  the  devil. ' '  Let  his  way 
in  this  direction  be  hedged  up. 


16  INTEMPERANCE. 

"Though  you  press  the  cup  to  my  lips,"  said  General  Har- 
rison, "not  a  drop  shall  pass  the  portals."  In  this  course 
there  is  safety.  In  the  other  course  there  is  danger. 

The  results  of  a  course  of  sobriety  are  also  far-reaching; 
they  reach  into  the  eternities,  and  their  influence  will  be  felt 
forever. 

This  course  will  also  bear  its  natural  fruit,  And  what  will 
this  fruit  be?  "Why,  in  this  life,  health  and  happiness,  peace 
and  prosperity,  respect  and  influence,  the  favor  of  the  honor- 
able of  earth  and  of  the  hosts  of  heaven,  together  with 
blessings  and  advantages  which  mortal  tongue  and  pen  can 
not  make  known;  and  in  the  life  which  is  to  come  the  prob- 
able fruit  will  be  the  fruit  of  immortality,  and  the  pen  of  an 
immortal  must  be  wielded  to  make  known  what  that  fruit 
shairbe. 

But  trust  in  our  Heavenly  Father  for  the  benefits  to  be 
derived  in  the  hereafter,  and  you  will  not  be  disappointed. 
And  even  were  there  no  hereafter,  for  the  sake  of  the  comfort 
and  peace,  and  joy  and  satisfaction,  and  conscious  innocence 
before  God,  which  a  life  of  sobriety  imparts  in  this  life,  be 
sober. 

When  liquor's  direful  power  is  working  on  the  brain 
From  what  infernal  crime  will  mortal  man  refrain? 

LEARN  TO   SAY   NO. 

In  every  condition  and  circumstance  of  life,  young  men 
need  decision  of  character — the  Yes  and  No  faculty — and  it  is 
especially  needed  when  the  tempter  says,  "drink  !"  For  the 
want  of  this  many  are  started  on  the  road  to  ruin,  and  kept 
traveling  thereon.  They  may  say  "No,"  but  the  thing  is  too 
weak  to  live,  and  very  soon  becomes  Yes. 

It  may  not  be  necessary  to  always  blurt  out  the  blunt,  "No, 
sir!"  This  is  not  our  meaning.  Kespectful  language,  suitable 
to  person  and  occasion,  embodying  a  healthy,  well-meant 
negative,  is  what  we  mean,  and  not  a  "No"  that  is  a  puny  half 
yes.  The  "No"  which  has  the  backing  of  decision  of  character, 
firm  resolution,  stern  determination,  and  the  Spirit  of  the 
living  God,  is  the  no  that  will  live  and  prosper.  It  is  under- 
stood to  be  all  "No",  it  is  not  tampered  with  much,  and  it 
carries  salvation  with  it.  Young  men  need  not  fear  to  prop- 


LEARN  TO  SAY   UNO."  17 

erly  use  it.  They  will  be  respected  for  doing  so,  and  will 
grow  in  power  to  use  it  effectually. 

"But,"  says  one,  "suppose  I  am  invited  or  requested  by 
my  particular  friend,  or  by  one  in  authority  over  me,  must  I 
decline,  if  by  so  doing  I  am  liable  to  offend?" 

We  will  ask,  what  kind  of  a  friend  or  person  in  authority 
must  he  be  who  would  take  offense  were  you  to  respectfully 
decline?  From  such  friendship  and  authority,  good  Lord 
deliver  us  and  you,  and  the  sooner  the  better ! 

George  Washington,  the  "father  of  his  country,"  and, 
under  God,  its  principal  preserver  and  savior,  while  he  lived, 
was  once  a  "friend"  and  "in  authority."  Read  the  following 
beautiful  incident  in  the  life  of  that  true  friend  and  noble 

Officer.  BANCROFT 

"Toward  the  close  of  the  revolutionary  wws^tSSfs'  BP.'tSx, 
"an  officer  in  the  army  dined  with  Washington.  Just  before 
the  dinner  was  concluded,  General  Washington  stood  up  and 
called  him  by  name,  and  requested  him  to  drink  a  glass  of 
wine  with  him. 

"'Will  you  have  the  goodness  to  excuse  me,  General?' 
replied  the  officer.  'I  have  made  it  a  rule  never  to  take 
wine.' 

"All  eyes  were  instantly  turned  upon  the  young  officer,  and 
a  murmur  of  surprise  and  indignation  ran  around  the  table. 

'  'That  a  person  should  be  so  unsocial  and  so  mean  as  never 
to  drink  wine  was  really  too  bad  ;  but  that  he  should  abstain 
from  it  on  an  occasion  like  that,  and  even  when  offered  to 
him  by  Washington  himself,  was  perfectly  intolerable! 
Washington  at  once  saw  the  feelings  of  his  guests,  and 
promptly  addressed  them : 

"  'Gentlemen,'  said  he,  'our  friend  is  right.  I  do  not  wish 
any  of  my  guests  to  partake  of  anything  against  their  incli- 
nation, and  I  certainly  do  not  wish  them  to  violate  any 
established  principle  in  their  social  intercourse  with  me.  / 
honor  my  friend  for  his  frankness,  for  his  consistency  in  thus 
adhering  to  an  established  rule,  which  can  never  do  him  harm, 
and  for  the  adoption  of  which  I  have  no  doubt  he  has  good 
and  sufficient  reasons. ' ' 


81  INTEMPERANCE. 

All  with  whom  you  have  intercourse  may  not  be  Washing- 
tons  in  this  respect,  but  be  not  discouraged;  your  influence  and 
example  may  help  to  make  them  such ;  and,  should  this  not 
be  the  case,  remember  that  the  bitter  and  sweet  are  inter- 
mingled in  this  life,  that  it  is  your  privilege  to  enjoy  the 
benefit  of  opposition,  which  helps  to  establish  the  right; 
which,  in  connection  with  the  love  of  right,  rouses  into  active 
energy  the  noblest,  the  brightest,  and  the  most  G-od-like  pow- 
ers of  its  champions,  makes  of  them  the  men  which  they 
otherwise  would  not  be,  and  adds  to  their  honor  and  glory  in 
time  and  eternity. 

It  may  be  that  some  young  men  may  consider  themselves 
too  young  to  form  resolutions,  or  that  they  cannot  break  off 
their  evil  habits,  which  have  become  comparatively  old  and 
established  in  them,  or  that  there  is  no  use  to  do  so — all 
will  be  well  with  them.  They  will  not  become  dishonored  or 
disgraced,  or  be  any  the  worse  for  their  present  course, 
oh,  no ! 

Will  such  please  to  read  carefully  the  following  statement 
of  Admiral  Farragut  ? 

"Would  you  like  to  know  how  I  was  enabled  to  serve  my 
country?  It  was  all  owing  to  a  resolution  I  formed  when  I 
was  ten  years  of  age.  My  father  was  sent  down  to  New 
Orleans  with  the  little  navy  we  then  had,  to  look  after  the 
treason  of  Burr.  I  accompanied  him  as  a  cabin  boy.  I  had 
some  qualities  that  I  thought  made  a  man  of  me.  I  could 
swear  like  an  old  salt ;  could  drink  as  stiff  a  glass  of  grog  as 
if  I  had  doubled  Cape  Horn;  and  could  smoke  like  a  locomotive. 
I  was  great  at  cards,  and  fond  of  gambling  in  every  shape. 
At  the  close  of  the  dinner,  one  day,  my  father  turned  every- 
body out  of  the  cabin,  locked  the  door  and  said  to  me  : 

"  'David,  what  do  you  mean  to  be?' 

"  'I  mean  to  follow  the  sea.' 

'"Follow  the  sea!  Yes,  be  a  poor,  miserable,  drunken 
sailor  before  the  mast,  kicked  and  cuffed  about  the  world, 
and  die  in  some  fever  hospital  in  a  foreign  clime!' 

"'No;  I'll  tread  the  quarter-deck,  and  command  as  you 
do.' 


ADMIRAL    FARRAGUT.  19 

"  'No,  David ;  no  boy  ever  trod  the  quarter-deck  with  such 
principles  as  you  have,  and  such  habits  as  you  exhibit.  You'll 
have  to  change  your  whole  course  of  life,  if  you  ever  become 
a  man!' 

"My  father  left  me  and  went  on  deck.  I  was  stunned  by 
the  rebuke,  and  overwhelmed  with  mortification.  'A  poor, 
miserable,  drunken  sailor  before  the  mast,  kicked  and  cuffed 
about  the  world,  and  to  die  in  some  fever  hospital!'  That's 
my  fate,  is  it?  I'll  change  my  life,  and  change  it  at  once.  I 
will  never  utter  another  oath ;  I  will  never  drink  another  drop 
of  intoxicating  liquors ;  I  will  never  gamble.  And,  as  God 
is  my  witness,  I  have  kept  those  three  vows  to  this  hour." 

What  think  you  of  this  case,  young  men  ?  Here  was  a 
boy  of  tender  years  but  precocious  in  vicious  habits.  At  this 
very  early  age  he  had  a  good  start  on  the  road  to  ruin.  The 
idea  of  a  boy  of  ten  being  able  to  "swear  like  an  old  salt;" 
to  "drink  as  stiff  a  glass  of  grog  as  if  he  had  doubled  Cape 
Horn;"  to  "smoke  like  a  locomotive;"  and  to  be  "great  at 
•cards,  and  fond  of  gambling  in  every  shape  !" 

But  he  had  a  father  who  desired  his  welfare,  and  sought  to 
reform  his  boy,  and  that  boy  could  form  a  resolution  and  keep 
it,  thus  making  himself  an  able  officer  and  an  honorable  man, 
and  leaving  on  record,  for  the  benefit  of  others,  his  testimony 
of  his  experience  in  vicious  habits  in  early  youth,  his  father's 
effort,  his  own  resolution,  .and  his  testimony  before  God  that 
he  had  kept  his  vows. 

And  we  will  say  to  the  young  man  whom  it  may  concern, 
"Go  thou  and  do  likewise  !" 

"Evil  communications  corrupt  good  manners. "  Bad  com- 
pany proves  the  bane  of  millions.  Young  Farragut  must 
have  been  in  very  bad  company  to  have  been  what  he  was  at 
ten  years  of  age.  Purity  of  language  and  refinement  of 
manners  are  not  cultivated  by  many  young  men  as  they  should 
be,  neither  is  the  moral  tone  which  characterizes  their  inter- 
course with  each  other  as  high  as  it  might  be. 

Boys  associate  with  young  men,  young  men  with  their 
seniors  up  to  seventy;  sufficient  caution  is  not  "used  in  conver- 
sation; the  force  of  exam  pie  is  not  thought  of,  or  else  disregarded; 
'boys  learn  things  which  it  would  be  well  for  them  to  be  igno- 


20  INTEMPERANCE. 

rant  of  till  they  attain  manhood ;  and  young  men,  and  boys 
too,  learn  some  things  which  it  would  be  a  blessing  to  them 
to  remain  ignorant  of  through  life.  Many  of  them  would 
grow  up  much  freer  from  the  vices  of  the  age  were  it  not  for 
the  lax  conversation  and  contagious  example  of  their  elders. 
Boys  are  imitative.  They  learn  many  things  as  birds  learn  to 
chirp. 

We  say,  young  men,  keep  good  company ;  but  as  we  write 
the  advice,  the  Spirit  say*:  ''Make  good  company  for  the 
young!"  And  we  humbly  acknowledge  the  necessity  of  the 
admonition.  Purify  thyself,  is  the  injunction  to  each.  It  is 
an  individual  labor.  God  speed  its  accomplishment ! 

But  the  young  have  their  agency,  and  we  say  to  them  :  be 
wise,  careful,  and  discriminate  in  selecting  your  associates. 
Keep  good  company,  and  avoid  in  wisdom  that  which  is  bad. 
Some  years  ago  we  saw  in  a  New  York  publication  an  incident 
in  the  life  of  a  lady,  which,  being  apropos,  we  embody  here  : 

"One  evening,  a  lady,  who  belongs  on  the  editorial  staff  of 
one  of  the  leading  dailies  of  New  York,  had  been  detained 
by  official  duties  until  a  rather  late  hour.  Living  on  the 
Heights  of  Brooklyn,  it  was  not  much  of  a  venture  to  go 
home  without  an  escort,  so  she  started.  On  the  boat  a  gentle- 
man (?)  said  to  her : 

"  'Are  you  alone?' 

'No,  sir,'  said  the  lady,  and  when  the  boat  touched  stepped 
off. 

'  'I  thought  you  said  you  were  not  aloue.'  said  the  fellow, 
stepping  to  her  side  again. 

"  'I  am  not,'  replied  the  lady. 

"  'Why,  I  don't  see  anyone;  who  is  with  you?' 

"  'G-od  Almighty  and  the  angels,  sir! — I  am  never  alone  !' 

"  'Madam,'  he  replied,  'you  keep  too  good  company  for 
me ,  good  night. '  ' 

That  is  the  sort  of  company  to  keep.  Blessed  is  he  or  she 
who  is  favored  with  it.  Seek  for  it.  Live  to  be  worthy  of 
it.  Evil  companions  may  turn  away  from  you,  but  do  not 
utterly  forsake  them.  Be  the  good  Samaritan.  When 
proper  opportunities  offer,  help  to  raise  the  fallen  to  a  higher 


UTAH'S  "REFORMERS."  21 

plane,  and  encourage  them  to  seek,  by  purity  of  life,  the 
enjoyment  of  the  same  "good  company." 

LEARN   WHO  YOUR  FRIENDS  ARE. 

Utah  abounds  in  self-styled,  blatant  pseudo-reformers,  who 
publish  to  the  world  that  they  "believe  that  billiard  halls, 
saloons  and  houses  of  ill-fame  are  more  powerful  reforming 
agencies  here  in  Utah  than  churches  and  schools."  They  ask 
the  question  :  "What  is  a  game  of  billiards,  a  glass  of  beer, 
a  cup  of  coffee,  a  cigar  or  other  petty  vice,  in  the  span  of  a 
strong  human  life,  filled  with  endeavor  in  the  right  direction?'' 
And,  at  least,  one  of  those  loud-mouthed,  would-be-reformers 
exhibits  the  purity  of  his  heart  and  motive,  and  the  excellent 
reformatory  influence(?)  he  would  like  to  wield  among  Utah's 
youthful  sons,  in  the  following  elegant  sentence : 

"I  rejoice  when  I  see  the  young  Mormon  hoodlums  playing 
billiards,  getting  drunk,  running  with  bad  women — anything 
to  break  the  shackles  they  were  born  in,  and  that  every 
so-called  religious  or  virtuous  influence  only  makes  the 
stronger. ' ' 

Young  Israel !  ye  fortunate,  ye  promising,  ye  honored  sons 
of  noble  sires,  what  think  you  of  the  reforming  agencies  by 
which  your  professed  friends  would  reform  you?  What  think 
you  of  the  very  peculiar  reformation  which  would  be  wrought 
in  you  were  these  agencies  exercised  upon  you  in  their 
full  reformatory  force?  What  think  you  of  the  meek-faced, 
oily-tongued,  spiritually-minded  and  extra-philanthropic  re- 
formers who  would  use  such  heavenly  agencies  to  produce 
such  a  glorious  effect? 

Aye,  what  think  you !  And  be  sure  you  do  think.  Think 
seriously,  think  deeply,  think  frequently,  and  think  in  the 
light  of  revelation  and  heaven  ;  for  your  present  and  eternal 
interests  are  at  stake.  A  deadly  aim  is  made  at  your  destruc- 
tion. Insidious  influences  are  at  work  to  effect  your  over- 
throw. Therefore,  be  on  your  guard,  and  give  diligent  heed 
to  your  true  friends  and  Utah's  long- tried  and  well-proven 
reformers. 

Who  is  this  other  class  of  reformers,  what»agencies  would 
they  use,  and  what  reform  do  those  composing  it  essay  to 
effect?  This  class  is  mainly  composed  of  the  Elders  of  Israel 


22  INTEMPERANCE. 

— the  servants  of  the  living  God — men  in  whom  dwells  the 
inspiration  of  the  Holy  One,  which  prompts  them  to  almost 
incessant  labor,  and  to  spaie  neither  time  nor  means  to  accom- 
plish their  God-given  task.  And  the  reform  they  would 
effect  is  the  salvation  of  a  fallen  world,  some  of  the  details 
of  which  they  have  been  working  at,  with  varying  success,  for 
over  half  a  century.  Alter  arriving  in  Utah  they  toiled  to 
cultivate  and  redeem  this  portion  of  the  earth,  and  there  is 
plenty  of  evidence  to-day  of  their  success  in  "turning  the 
wilderness  into  a  fruitful  field."  They  strove  to  displace  the 
howl  of  the  wolf  with  the  hum  of  industry,  and  their  success 
is  seen  on  every  hand.  They  labored  to  establish  a  commu- 
nity in  these  mountains  second  to  none  on  earth,  in  morality 
and  true  religion,  and  they  have  done  so.  They  have  striven 
for  possible  reform  in  every  reformable  thing,  and  God  has 
abundantly  blessed  their  efforts.  And  lastly,  and  definitely, 
they  have  labored  under  the  pressure  of  poverty  and  national 
opposition  to  raise  up  a  generation  of  men  and  women  of 
which  the  heavens  should  be  proud,  and  they  have  succeeded 
in  this,  too. 

Now,  ye  youth  of  Zion,  need  we  ask  you  who  are  your 
friends — 

UTAH'S  TRUE  REFORMERS? 

We  think  not.  You  know  them.  Experience,  observation 
and  the  spirit  of  truth  teach  you  who  they  are.  Then  respect 
them.  Obey  their  wise  counsels.  Heed  their  fatherly  admo- 
nitions. Receive  their  saying  corrections.  Be  cautious  and 
careful,  be  prudent  and  discerning  in  the  choice  of  your 
society.  Place  yourselves  on  the  list  of  Utah's  true  reformers. 
Live,  labor  and  remain  there  tiii  your  f^aucis  of  time  have  run, 
and  you  will  find  yourselves  listed  for  high  honors  and  heirship 
with  Jesus  the  beloved  of  the  Father. 
BE  SOBER. 

Young  men,  we  do  not  write  for  money.  Our  sole  object 
is  to  do  you  good.  Please  allow  us  the  pleasure  of  doing  so. 
Read  carefully,  studiously  and  prayerfully.  Read  again  with 
a  fixed  determination  to  profit  aud  reform.  Cease  to  sap 
your  physical  and  mental  power  by  indulging  in  vicious 
habits.  Remember  those  powers  were  given  you  to  be  used 


BE  SOBER.  23 

for  your  own  elevation  and  salvation,  and  to  aid  in  the  hercu- 
lean task  of  the  world's  redemption.  You  will  have  to  render 
an  account  of  the  use  of  those  "talents,"  therefore  do  not 
abuse  them,  but  use  them  carefully  and  wisely;  exercise  them 
that  they  may  shine  brightly,  and  grow  in  strength,  prepara- 
tory to  immortalization. 

Immortalization  ?  Yes !  verily,  yes !  Do  you  know  that 
the  time  draweth  nigh  when  the  Son  of  Man  "will  come  in 
the  clouds  of  heaven,  in  power  and  great  glory,"  accompanied 
by  a  heavenly  host,  and  that  the  righteous  will  be  "caught 
up  to  meet  Him"  at  His  glorious  appearing? 

And  do  you  know,  young  men,  that  it  is  not  the  privilege 
of  many  of  you  to  be  among  the  number  who  will  be  "changed 
in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye,"  from  mortality  to  a  degree  of 
immortality  ? 

And  who  will  have  the  glorious  privilege  ?  Do  you  want 
it?  Then  live  for  it. 

Do  you  want  healthy,  vigorous  and  pure  bodies  ? 

Do  you  want  your  spirits  to  hold  righteous  dominion  over 
your  bodies,  and  to  be  as  untainted  by  sin  as  whea  they  left 
your  heavenly  home? 

Do  you  desire  intellectual  ability  and  superiority  to  enable 
you  to  mold  the  minds  of  millions  yet  unborn? 

Do  you  wish  to  become  the  kind  of  men,  physically,  men- 
tally and  morally,  through  whom  the  Lord  delights  to  operate, 
to  perform  His  magnificent  latter-day  work  ? 

Would  you  like  to  impart  joy  unutterable  to  the  bosoms  of 
loving  and  anxious  parents? 

Would  you  like  to  experience  the  exquisite  satisfaction 
which  conscious  innocence  before  Glod  imparts? 

Do  you  desire  your  minds  to  be  holy  tablets,  upon  which 
the  Spirit  of  inspiration  shall  delight  to  indite  the  will  of 
heaven,  daily,  for  the  benefit  of  yourselves  and  all  others  who 
may  be  affected  by  your  counsels  and  example  ? 

Would  you  be  the  happy  recipients  of  the  choice  and 
inestimable  blessings  the  Lord  has  promised  to  those  who 
keep  the  "Word  of  Wisdom?" 

In  brief,  do  you  desire  to  become  the  strong-bodied,  vigor- 
ous-minded, pure-hearted  men  of  God — the  holy  temples  in 


24  INTEMPERANCE. 

which  the  Third  Person  in  the  Trinity  can  dwell  and  operate 
for  your  salvation,  and  that  of  the  salvable  of  Adam's  race- 
such  men  as  He  can  use  and  honor  in  life  and  eventually  exalt 
and  crown  in  His  celestial  kingdom  ? 

Then  be  humble  and  pure,  be  prayerful  and  persevering, 
he  honest  and  wise,  be  virtuous  and  obedient — be  all  that 
Grod  desires  you  to  be!  And.  as  an  initial,  fundamental  and 
powerful  means  by  which  to  attain  the  position  and  glory  of 
the  Highest— besoberl  BE  SOBER!  BE  SOBER! 


TAUGHT    BY    A    GOAT. 


"A  thoughtless  Welshman,  with  a  thirsty  throat- 
So  goes  the  tale — possessed  a  favorite  goat, 
Which  follow' d  him,  when  once,  to  play  the  sot, 
He  sought  the  taproom  and  the  foamy  pot. 
He  gave  her  drink,  when,  by  the  cheerful  blaze, 
Strangely  forgetting  all  her  sober  ways, 
She  r«el!d  about  and  roll'd  upon  the  floor, 
As  never  goat  had  roll'd  about  before. 
The  giggling  topers  so  enjoyed  the  sight, 
That  they  would  have  the  fun  another  night. 
The  Welshman  took  her,  but  the  goat,  alas! 
The  portal  of  the  pot-house  would  not  pass. 
Her  master  uselessly  tried  every  mode, 
And  pats  and  punches  freely  were  bestowed. 
The  landlord  strove,  and  did  his  best,  they  say, 
But  all  in  vain,  for  Nanny  won  the  day ; 
Cuffing  and  coaxing,  both  alike  she  bore, 
Nor  could  they  get  her  through  the  pot-house  door. 
The  wondering  Welshman,  now  no  longer  blind, 
Pondered  the  thing  a  moment  in  his  mind; 
Then  prudently  adopted,  in  the  end, 
The  wise  example  of  his  shaggy  friend — 
Forsook  the  pot-house,  and  reformed  his  plan, 
And  from  that  hour  became  a  sober  man. 
Ye  drunkards  all,  this  prudent  lesson  follow, 
Or  own,  in  sense,  a  goat  can  beat  you  hollow." 


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THE    YEAR    <>F    JUBILEE.  -tieth 

Annual  Conference  of  the  Church   . 
Till-:  UTA 

:.:tke  Valle\. 
ITEM-  -  mi  K)D.  by  ,hn  Taylor. 

HISTORY  OF  THE  ORGANIZATION  -    by  Joseph 

Young 

THE  MORMON  oUESTIoN.  correspondence  between  Vic.  -  -huv- 

ler  Colfax  and  President  John  Ta\ 
DEATH  OF  PlJi  hi<lifeaiMl 

labors, 

THE   !  riON.  a  dis.  -nurse  by  Hre-ide- 

CIRCULAR   (>F    TIIK    FIRST    PRESIDENT  V    and    Epist  :  \velve 

DOCTRINES  OF  THE  CHURCH   of  Jesus  Christ  of   Latter-day  Sainl 
faith  an  1  i 
dozen, 

THE  PLAN  OF  SALVATION,  a   tract   of   24  pa-e*.  l.v  Elder  John  Morgan 

THE  ONLY  WAY  TO  BE  SAVED,  a  ti 

per  dozen. 

CATECHISM    CARDS  —  Rt-^t  -ration  of   ;•  ,,-  tjH. 

of   Mormon;  The  Word  of  Wisdom;  John  the! 

The  First  Commandment;  Angels:  Self-Denial;  Reward;  <  'hapter  on  i 

U  i>  lorn;  The    K:, 

Prayer:  The  Third  Commandment;  Card.-  containing  the  Art  : 

The    blessings  on  the  Bread    and  Wine:  and  the  Ten   Command 

Price,  let. 

MY    FIRST    MISSION,  a  uarrativ-  u.irv 

upon  the  Sandwich  Islands,  containing  an    ac-i-ount  of  the  in; 

spel  to  the  Hawaiian  people,  intei  iption  of  th< 

tOlM-. 

A    STRIN'r    OF    PEARLS,   <  ..ut-iiuinsr  the    followins   im 

embracing  a  vari-  writ  ten  by  a  numb.-r  ,.f  well-known 

aut!l  IM  Taylor,  tl  \V   ( 

St  aines.  and  others 
War  J! 

. 

• 


LI:AY;:<   FROM   MY   JOURNAL,  t.y  Pr.-vident    w.  Woodnitt:  s 

-  wonderful  missionary  experience,  and  the  most  int. 

•t  Ins  life,  together  with  his  testimony  concerning  the  mini-^ 
of  the  Holy  Spirit. 
GEMS    F..R    TIT 

A.  Kiml.all.  Benjamin  Brown.  Elder  H.  C,    Bovle  and 
othc!-  t  ho  foll,,wi    _ 

JACOB  HAMBLIN.  a  narrative  of  his  -  .„;,„. 

to  the    Indians    am!    <•- 

privations,  perilous  situations  and  remark 

INTEMl'FRAXt  F:  an  Appeal  to  the   Youth  of  Zioii,  24   pa^e-    i.-mer  c 

QtS. 

HCE  FROM    THE  MOUNTAINS,   a   Testimony  of  the   Truth  of   the 
Gospel  as  Pevealed  to  Joseph  Smith,  -.'4  pages,  paper  -MIS: 


